Marketplaces and Entrepreneurship
Examines the history, practices, and prospects of marketplaces and farmers markets, focusing on entrepreneurship through lenses of economic development, food justice, and political regionalism.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Apply concepts of social scientific analysis
Understand the history of marketplaces, and more recently, of farmers markets, how they developed
Evaluate their relationship to trends in economic development, food justice, and political regionalism
Distinguish and judge the various legal and social practices and processes that unfold in establishing markets and market entrepreneurs/farmers, as well as distinguishing descriptive from normative concerns
Describe how markets relate to bioregionalism, places, and place making
Understand and apply basic knowledge of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and community economic development, as well as how these embody normative concerns and bioregional/placemaking interests
Apply knowledge from the course in executing research on markets and vendors in order to contribute to an existing market in Wisconsin or elsewhere
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the class
Recent recorded grades — Fall 2025: 3.92 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=13 letter grades).
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Topics
- History and practices of marketplaces and farmers markets
- Entrepreneurship and its relationship to markets
- Economic development, food justice, and political regionalism
- Bioregionalism, places, and place making
Skills
- Applying concepts of social scientific analysis
- Distinguishing descriptive from normative concerns in legal and social market practices
- Applying knowledge of entrepreneurship, social entrepreneurship, and community economic development
- Executing research on markets and vendors to contribute to an existing market
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